Since 9/11, intelligence agencies, independent commissions, and private-sector analyses have repeatedly asserted that terrorist organizations rely heavily on funding from Islamic charities. This alleged support for acts of violence and terrorism in the Islamic charitable...

By 2007, there is bipartisan as well as international recognition that U.S. leadership globally has been severely damaged by the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies. The rhetoric about the “global war on terror” coupled with the policies of...

Asia’s largest multilateral naval exercise in decades took place in the eastern Indian Ocean Sept. 4-9, involving ships and aircraft from the U.S., India, Japan, Australia, and Singapore. President Bush condemned the Burmese junta for its brutal suppression of...

Some years ago The Economist (December 22, 2001) published a witty piece recommending to its readers “unusual excursions.” Pyongyang topped the list, but Port Harcourt, a sprawling city of almost three million in the heart of Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta...

Military-to-military ties with Indonesia were enhanced as plans were made for joint exercises. Jakarta also supported UNSC sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program despite negative domestic reactions. In the Philippines, the U.S. condemned the extra-judicial killings...

Diamonds, a global symbol of love and wealth, have also served as hard currency for conflict in Africa. So-called “conflict diamonds” have been a concern for humanitarian advocates and a complex issue before policy makers for almost a decade. But the December...